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NASCAR-Ryan Newman feels lucky to be racing.... period. (Motorsports)
NASCAR is first major sports league back but with a new schedule (Below)
Jacoby Jones is on the Clock (below)
Jesper Svensson, Kyle Troup Win Second Roth-Holman PBA Doubles Championship (Below)
Tomac wins in Motocross (Motorsports)
GAM Super Senior Player of the Year (Michigan Golf Scene)
Michigan Golf Show interviews and show is coming

The Palace Demolition is coming along

At first it was a trickle and now its coming much faster but in the end, all that will be left of the Palace is a pile of bricks. Here is a drone shoot from earlier this month.

Detroit Tigers: 2020 is make or break year for JaCoby Jones - from New Jock City

By Tyler Kotila- New Jock City-The Detroit Tigers are buried in the rebuild right now, but 2020 is still going to be a make or break season for outfielder JaCoby Jones as he looks to show he belongs.The 2020 season is going to be a crucial one for Detroit Tigers outfielder JaCoby Jones who needs to prove that he belongs in the big leagues after a rough showing the past two seasons. Jones has been in the big leagues for parts of the past four seasons. The main issue with Jones is his plate discipline and lack of patience, leading to far too many strikeouts.
The Tigers outfield this year consists of some familiar faces, even an old friend in the form of Cameron Maybin, but if Jones wants to stick around, he needs to improve and show he belongs. He will get the opportunities this year platooning with Maybin and Víctor Reyes, who will find himself all over.
With Daz Cameron continuing in his route to the big leagues, Jones is going to have some more competition once the prospects within the organization continue developing. That is if he’s still around by that point in time.

In 2019, Jones played in eighty-eight games where he hit .235/.310/.430 with eleven home runs and twenty-six RBI while striking out ninety-four times. Injuries kept Jones on the injured list in 2019, and off the lineup card, he continued to show inconsistency either way.
Back in 2018, in his first “full” season in the big leagues, Jones was not very good posting a .207/.266/.304 with eleven home runs and thirty-four RBI while striking out 142 times on the season. Jones’s inconsistency at the plate has limited his value during his time in the big leagues.
The hope for Jones would be that a strong spring performance would carry over to the regular season, and he can emerge as a true consistent everyday centerfielder.

All 32 NFL Teams Cap Situation

Here's a look at every team's projected cap situation as of Saturday, per Spotrac:
1. Miami Dolphins, $93.7 million
2. Indianapolis Colts, $86.1 million
3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, $85.0 million
4. Buffalo Bills, $83.1 million
5. Dallas Cowboys, $74.0 million
6. New York Giants, $73.3 million
7. Houston Texans, $63.0 million
8. Washington Redskins, $61.9 million
9. Cleveland Browns, $58.3 million
10. New York Jets, $56.1 million
11. Los Angeles Chargers, $55.9 million
12. Denver Broncos, $53.4 million
13. Seattle Seahawks, $52.8 million
14. Las Vegas Raiders, $51.6 million
15. Tennessee Titans, $47.8 million
16. Cincinnati Bengals, $47.6 million
17. Detroit Lions, $46.8 million
18. Philadelphia Eagles, $45.6 million
19. New England Patriots, $44.0 million
20. Arizona Cardinals, $39.3 million
21. Jacksonville Jaguars, $33.8 million
22. Baltimore Ravens, $31.0 million
23. Carolina Panthers, $24.7 million
24. Chicago Bears, $24.7 million
25. Los Angeles Rams, $23.3 million
26. Kansas City Chiefs, $19.2 million
27. Green Bay Packers, $18.5 million
28. San Francisco 49ers, $17.9 million
29. New Orleans Saints, $12.3 million
30. Atlanta Falcons, $4.5 million
31. Minnesota Vikings, $0.7 million
32. Pittsburgh Steelers, minus-$2.2 million

Musings of a Filterless Reporter-Column
by Roy J. Akers

The Ally Challenge: Who is more excited, Tom Izzo to meet the Legends or the Legends to meet Izzo?

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MIS is a victim of the new schedule

From NASCAR.com and Roy J. Akers

NASCAR is thinking on the fly and it looks like they are getting things right. With MLB shelved until at least July and whatever soccer league claims to be the place to be, NASCAR will have the major sports world all to itself until at least the 4th of July.
The drivers are ready, the public wants to watch anything but Covid-19 stories. While fans will be absent from upcoming races for the time being, the drivers are ready to go. Kyle Busch will race in all races in Darlington across the series' spectrum and it will be a welcome sight to people who want to watch live sports instead of the greatest hits across other sports spectrums. NASCAR.com picks up the story from here. NASCAR released its next wave of races in the realigned 2020 schedule on Thursday, locking in the next five NASCAR Cup Series races that begin after the May 27 event at Charlotte Motor Speedway and go through mid-June.
Five NASCAR Xfinity Series events and two NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series races were confirmed as well. All of these rescheduled events will be held without fans in attendance as restrictions and safeguards related to the coronavirus pandemic remain in effect.
A weeknight race under the lights at Martinsville Speedway on Wednesday, June 10, is among the highlights announced days before NASCAR’s return to the track. The originally scheduled spring race at Martinsville Speedway was to be the first to begin under the track’s lights on Mother’s Day weekend before the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the sport for two months.
Races at Bristol Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway – all tracks which saw their races postponed due to the novel coronavirus, and all tracks within driving distance of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based shops – complete the schedule through June 21.

Jesper Svensson, Kyle Troup Win Second Roth-Holman PBA Doubles Championship Title by Jerry Schneider | Sunday, March 09

INDIANAPOLIS – Sweden’s Jesper Svensson and fellow two-hander Kyle Troup of Taylorsville, North Carolina, defeated EJ Tackett of Bluffton, Indiana and Marshall Kent of Yakima, Washington, 234-205, in the Baker format title match to win the Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship which aired Sunday on FS1 from Royal Pin Woodland.For both Svensson and Troup it was their second title of the 2020 Go Bowling PBA Tour season, but for the 25-year-old Svensson, his 10th career title made him title-eligible for eventual election to the PBA Hall of Fame. He is the third youngest player to achieve that feat, behind Anthony Simonsen and Tackett who reached the PBA Hall of Fame minimum titles eligibility criteria at ages 22 and 24, respectively. All three have a lengthy wait ahead in reaching the 20-year PBA membership criteria, however. Tackett will be eligible for the Hall of Fame ballot for induction in 2032, Simonsen in 2033 and Svensson, the first Swedish player to earn HOF eligibility, in 2034.
Svensson won the Go Bowling PBA Indianapolis Open for back-to-back titles while Troup earned his fifth career title after winning the Jonesboro Open earlier this season.

Justin Knowles of Okemos won the Metro Detroit USBC (MDUSBC) Men's Series event Sunday with a 214-187 triumph over Chris Szczepaniak of Wyandotte at Westland Bowl in Westland. Knowles took home the top prize of $500, while
Szczepaniak settled for $250.

Knowles qualified sixth in the field of 50, with a four-game total of 859 on games of 214, 208, 247 and 190. In match play he beat Darren Alexander of Essex, Ontario 239-193, Aaron Lorincz of Centerline 213-186 and Anthony Wright of Detroit 198-193 to advance to the championship match.

Szczepaniak qualified ninth with 845, including a high game of 227. In match play he defeated Lenard Jackson of Sterling Heights 234-205, top qualifier Jordan Hornes of Detroit 225-206 and Mark Brooks of Westland 196-176 on his way to the finals.

Hornes led the field with 968 on games of 257, 201, 244 and 266. He then lost his first match to take home $75.
Women's champion Stacey Timmer of Wayland won the "Battle of the Series" by defeating Knowles 188-183 in a spirited match.

MARK ROTH-MARSHALL HOLMAN PBA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
(a 2020 Go Bowling PBA Tour Tier 3 event)
Royal Pin Woodland, Indianapolis (aired Sunday on FS1)

Final Standings:
1, Jesper Svensson, Sweden/Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., $30,000.
2, EJ Tackett, Bluffton, Ind./Marshall Kent, Yakima, Wash., $15,000.
3, Dom Barrett, England/Anthony Simonsen, Little Elm, Texas, $13,000
4, Andrew Anderson, Holly, Mich./Kris Prather, Plainfield, Ill., $12,000.
5, Jakob Butturff, Tempe, Ariz./Osku Palermaa, Finland, $11,000.
Stepladder Results:
Match One – Barrett/Simonsen def. Butturff/Palermaa, 237-236.
Match Two – Barrett/Simonsen def. Anderson/Prather, 226-190.
Semifinal Match – Tackett/Kent def. Barrett/Simonsen, 263-190.
Championship – Svensson/Troup def. Tackett/Kent, 234-205.